Uzbek numbers 1-10: bir, ikki, uch, to'rt, besh, olti, yetti, sakkiz, to'qqiz, o'n.My conclusion: it looks like the numbers of this Uyghur pidgin are of Turkic origin; none of them appear to come from Chinese.

Indeed, this pidgin did not adopt the chinese numbers (at least, not to my knowledge) but, it did adopt the chinese counting-system: the numbers from 11~19, the way they are constructed is same for turkic and chinese languages but, the numbers from 20~99 in this pidgin are immediate signs of chinese counting-system...instead having different words for 20 and 30 so on, the pidgin has şikkiwen for 20 and içuwen for 30 so on.

formiko wrote:The Turkic languages are one of my least studied language families, although I think Turkish itself is fascinating. I somehow lump all Turkish languages together (soft of like Scandinavian languages, but truly, how close are they? I'd like this answered by a native or someone who is very familiar with the family. Can an Uzbek read aTurkish newspaper?? Can a Kazakh understand a Turkish conversation? I'üe met quite a few Turks who say those languages are like Chinese to them, but I always sensed a tone of derision and they may not have been completely truthful (for political reasons probably)

I dare to state those turks lied because, once when I spoken in Uyghur without loan-words to a Turkish individual, he understood perfectly but insisted that I was speaking pure turkish with an odd accent and not Uyghur (and he would say the same for most turkic languages in the world).

VROOR wrote:once when I spoken in Uyghur without loan-words to a Turkish individual, he understood perfectly but insisted that I was speaking pure turkish with an odd accent and not Uyghur (and he would say the same for most turkic languages in the world).

Oh well, Turkish people would have a hard time understanding Tuvan because, Tuvan never was devoloped unter Islamic influences (thus, lacks the universal shared perso-arabic vocabularies) and, has a large loan-words from the mongolian language.

VROOR wrote:Turkish people would have a hard time understanding Tuvan because, Tuvan never was devoloped unter Islamic influences (thus, lacks the universal shared perso-arabic vocabularies) and, has a large loan-words from the mongolian language.

Dan_ad_nauseam wrote:Has it been studied enough to support a comparison?

Despite the large numbers of people who are able to use this uyghur pigdin to communicate, the academia itself seems not yet interested in researching this pigdin. Hopefully, in the near future some of us can spark the interests in the academia to sway in this direction.